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Defra Secretary Theresa Villiers has backtracked on her predecessor’s cast-iron guarantee to set up a Trade and Food Commission to protect standards after Brexit.
With two weeks to go until polling day, all the political parties have now published their manifestos. But what are they promising on food and farming?
Farmers at the Royal Welsh Winter Fair, Llanelwedd, met with Mr Johnson on Monday (November 25) as he launched his party’s Welsh manifesto for the general election.
The importance of food and family farms must be remembered by any party which takes on the UK Government as it strives to ‘bridge the divides’ caused by Brexit, Welsh unions have said.
Calls for transparency within food systems does not mean everyone wants to know what is in their beef burgers, but people ‘wish to know they could access the information if necessary’.
A post-Brexit free trade scenario of the kind proposed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson risks making more than 250,000 hectares of farmland in Wales ‘unproductive’, according to analysis from the Welsh Government.
Farm groups have criticised a former Defra chief scientist for saying people will have to cut down on eating red meat if the UK is to meet its 2050 net zero emissions target.
Northern Irish farmers have expressed concerns that the Prime Minister’s new Brexit deal could see them ‘cut out of’ the Great British market, if the rest of the UK chooses to diverge from EU food production standards.
Farmers have issued a plea for agriculture to be front and centre of the upcoming General Election campaign, after MPs finally backed holding a vote on December 12.
Net profits for the ‘average’ farmer are set to fall by half over the next decade, even if environmental payments double, according to research by consultants Strutt and Parker.
The CLA has called on Government to spend £30m a year improving farmers’ business, digital and technical skills, as well as providing environmental training.
A Canadian official has confirmed the UK’s no-deal tariff schedule, which would allow many imports to enter the country duty-free, led to the shutdown of Brexit continuity trade talks.
Natural England needs an annual cash boost of £140m if it is to build proper relationships with farmers and carry out its duties to protect the environment, according to its chair Tony Juniper.